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Great Bay (New Jersey) — a popular fishing spot. About 41.3 km² in area. Nearest town — Atlantic City. This is a sea water — its bite forecast is a marine one, computed apart from rivers and lakes. This page shows an hourly bite forecast for today and the week ahead; the algorithm factors in the weather, atmospheric pressure, and the moon phase.
Nearest towns and cities
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Other nearby waters
The shoreline is moderately indented: bays and points alternate with even stretches. The islands add structure: drop-offs around their perimeter and channels between them and the bank. The largest water around: all 11 neighbours are smaller.
The longest fetch is 6 mi along the north-west — south-east axis: wind along it builds a wave on the open water and pushes silt and food towards the lee bank.
New Jersey: the months when each species peaks and when it goes quiet. The current month is outlined.
| Fish | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black drum | active | peak | peak | active | active | fair | fair | fair | active | active | active | active |
| Flounder | slow | fair | active | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Striped bass | slow | fair | peak | peak | active | active | active | peak | peak | active | slow | slow |
| Bluefish | slow | slow | fair | active | active | active | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow |
| Spanish mackerel | slow | slow | slow | fair | peak | peak | peak | active | fair | slow | slow | slow |
Wednesday, October 21
Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Great Bay — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 00:00–03:00.
The computed water temperature is around 58 °F — colder than the 61–79 °F comfort range for Black drum: the fish conserves energy and takes more cautiously.
Black drum feeds at night: the peak falls in the dark hours, between sunset and sunrise.
Pressure is dropping 0.09 inHg over the day — fish are usually more active ahead of a weather change.
One more input — the moon's feeding windows: within their hours the score sits higher than across the rest of the day. The window times are in the “Solunar feeding periods” card below.
October is an active season for Black drum here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
| 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -0.9 ft | -0.2 ft | 0.4 ft | 0.9 ft | 1.0 ft | 0.8 ft | 0.2 ft | -0.4 ft | -0.9 ft | -1.2 ft | -1.2 ft | -1.0 ft | -0.5 ft | 0.3 ft | 1.0 ft | 1.5 ft | 1.7 ft | 1.5 ft | 1.0 ft | 0.2 ft | -0.6 ft | -1.1 ft | -1.4 ft | -1.4 ft |
Open-Meteo tide model, grid point 6.1 mi away
Open-Meteo Marine model, grid cell 6.1 mi from the waterbody. Values are daily means.
Cloudy · feels like +47°
The day is 2 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
Geomagnetic fieldquiet, Kp 3.7
Kp index — NOAA forecast. Not part of the bite score: catches show no link between geomagnetic storms and the bite.
The windows are set by the moon's transit and rise, and the forecast above already accounts for them: within these hours the bite score sits higher than across the rest of the day, while the day's overall level still comes from the catch-calibrated model.
What are solunar periods?Look for structure — reefs, flats, channel edges; work them slowly near the bottom.
Great Bay — Wednesday, October 21
The bite is strong — fish are active. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 00:00–03:00.